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Facing It Together: Coaching Resilience When Life Changes the Relationship
The Whistle Blows Again: Stewart Fleming and the Next Chapter of Coaching Life
What does it mean to Recalculate?
From Merry-Go-Round to Meaningful Building a Coaching Practice in the Middle East — Part 3 of 3
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The Coaching Life Podcast Is Here: Episode 1 with Wayne Goldsmith - High Performance Coaching
Wayne Goldsmith thinks most performance leaders are solving the wrong problem. They're trying to get more OUT of people. Motivation sessions, resilience classes, offering incentives for buy-in, giving them self-help books for Christmas - that's the conventional approach to building high performance environments - let's be honest - none of it works - but we've all tried it - and usually when it's too late or almost too late. Thirty years across Olympic programs, national federations and professional organisations taught him it runs the other way. You can't force excellence. Greatness in organisations is grown from the bottom up - by connecting with, engaging and inspiring the people you work with. It's not about getting the best out of people - like you're squeezing the potential "juice" out of them! It's about giving your best to them - doing your best for them - by being selfless and by building on the foundation of three immensely important words: WE - NOT - ME! Coaching is the art of inspiring change through emotional connection - everything begins with powerful relationships focused on listening, caring, respect and empowerment. In this episode he makes the case for high-performance coaching as experience design - and what has to change on Monday morning for leaders who accept it.
Facing It Together: Coaching Resilience When Life Changes the Relationship
When illness, caregiving, financial pressure or loss reshapes a couple’s life, coaches can help clients move from individual survival to shared resilience—without turning the coaching room into therapy.
The Whistle Blows Again: Stewart Fleming and the Next Chapter of Coaching Life
From childhood commercials and fast-growing companies to a mayoral campaign, an encounter with a former Pope’s coach and a magazine built to lift an industry, Stewart Fleming has rarely taken the predictable route. Now Coaching Life is back—with a new editor-in-chief, a multimedia outlook and the Golden Whistle Awards waiting in the wings.
Sports
The Coaching Life Podcast Is Here: Episode 1 with Wayne Goldsmith - High Performance Coaching
Wayne Goldsmith thinks most performance leaders are solving the wrong problem. They're trying to get more OUT of people. Motivation sessions, resilience classes, offering incentives for buy-in, giving them self-help books for Christmas - that's the conventional approach to building high performance environments - let's be honest - none of it works - but we've all tried it - and usually when it's too late or almost too late. Thirty years across Olympic programs, national federations and professional organisations taught him it runs the other way. You can't force excellence. Greatness in organisations is grown from the bottom up - by connecting with, engaging and inspiring the people you work with. It's not about getting the best out of people - like you're squeezing the potential "juice" out of them! It's about giving your best to them - doing your best for them - by being selfless and by building on the foundation of three immensely important words: WE - NOT - ME! Coaching is the art of inspiring change through emotional connection - everything begins with powerful relationships focused on listening, caring, respect and empowerment. In this episode he makes the case for high-performance coaching as experience design - and what has to change on Monday morning for leaders who accept it.
The Future of Human Development
It was in the Sydney gym where I met Fiona Taylor. She was training for the Olympics in Wind Surfing. After working with her I funded my way to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, buying a round-the-world ti...
Technocoach
Optimizing the Use of Technology in Effective Sports Coaching.
Business
What does it mean to Recalculate?
We start out with all the enthusiasm in the world before the first in a string of disappointments. Someone tells us we are crazy to think we could reach a go…
From Merry-Go-Round to Meaningful Building a Coaching Practice in the Middle East — Part 3 of 3
In Parts 1, I shared how I stepped off what I called the ‘corporate merry-go-round’ and discovered coaching while living in Qatar. After travelling to Australia to train as a professional coach, it opened a possibility I had not imagined before: create a coaching ‘school’ in Doha. In Part 2, that idea became real through relationships, unexpected invitations and, eventually, my partnership with Marie Quigley and the creation of Empower World. In 2015, the work had also taken me into another community that would also become very dear to my heart. Rachel Petero, a Māori leader who had completed our training in Doha, invited me to partner with her on her programme Rise2025.
From Merry-Go-Round to Meaningful: Building a Coaching Practice in the Middle East - Part 2 of 3
Empower World - the first coach training organisation established in Doha, Qatar, the Middle East (as far as we've been able to identify) opened its doors in 2012, and is still going today. As two women co-founders – we were and very proud of what we have been able to create - in a place where many businesses struggle to succeed without assistance.
Life
Facing It Together: Coaching Resilience When Life Changes the Relationship
When illness, caregiving, financial pressure or loss reshapes a couple’s life, coaches can help clients move from individual survival to shared resilience—without turning the coaching room into therapy.
The Whistle Blows Again: Stewart Fleming and the Next Chapter of Coaching Life
From childhood commercials and fast-growing companies to a mayoral campaign, an encounter with a former Pope’s coach and a magazine built to lift an industry, Stewart Fleming has rarely taken the predictable route. Now Coaching Life is back—with a new editor-in-chief, a multimedia outlook and the Golden Whistle Awards waiting in the wings.
When clients need more than insight – the power of Clinical EFT in the coaching practice
Most clients come to coaching because they feel stuck somewhere in their life. Perhaps they feel stuck in their career, their health, in relationships, maybe they’re looking for a sense of purpose, to develop their spirituality or grow their inner confidence.
Specialty
Why LEGO Serious Play Is the Creative Problem Solving Tool Managers Didn’t Know They Needed - Part 1 of 2
I first stumbled across LEGO Serious Play about a decade ago. At the time, my initial reaction was admittedly light-hearted: imagine having a tax-deductible LEGO collection. I laughed, parked the idea, and moved on. It wasn’t until years later, while leading a major national reform, that LEGO Serious Play re-entered my world in a far more meaningful way.
Identify a news angle
The messages I receive from small business owners usually start the same - “I’ve tried to contact a whole lot of newspapers giving them this great story, but…
Is Your Career in Focus? Coaching and Procrastination
As a career coach, my client’s needs differ, with common themes being career change, professional development coaching and also coaching to become experts in…
Career
Coaching Life Podcast Set to Give Every Coach a Voice
Our new audio series will spotlight the stories behind coaching, explore the issues shaping the profession, and give coaches a stronger voice across Australia’s life, employment, corporate, community and sporting sectors.
From Resistance to Mastery: Trusting the Coaching Competencies
Many practitioners - whether newly trained or working toward advanced credentialing admit they sometimes experience the coaching competencies as limiting.
Q&A with MCC and Coach Course Leader at ACAP University College, Mark Setch
If you’ve spent a long time in the professional coaching industry, chances are you have come across Mark Setch. Coaching Course Leader at the Australian College for Applied Professions (ACAP) University College, Mark is an MCC, clocking up thousands of hours across his career.
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